Tea and coffee percolator.



J. S. GORDON & S. P. MUMMA.

TEA AND COFFEE PERGOLATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 16, 1908.

909,178, Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

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UNITE STATES ANT EFIQE.

JOHN S. GORDON AND SIMON MUMMA, OF CANAL DOVER, OHIO.

TEA AND COFFEE PERC OLATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN S. GORDON and SIMON P. MUMMA, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Teaand Coffee Percolators, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in percolators or strainers forcoffee and tea.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and practical deviceof this character which may be conveniently handled and Which may beadapted for use in making either large or small quantities of tea orcoffee.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists of thenovel features of construction and the combination and arrangement ofarts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- I igure 1 is a side elevation of theimproved tea or coffee percolator; lig. 2 is a top plan view; I- ig. 3is a vertical section through the same; and l ig. 4 is a horizontalsection.

The invention comprises a cylindrical body 1 havin 0 en ends closed byremovable.

heads 2, 3, t e former of which is adapted to serve as the top and thelatter of which as the bottom. These heads 2, 3 have a screw threadedengagement with the ends of the body 1, as shown at 4, in order thatsaid body may be reversed. Said body is formed adjacent to its oppositeends with two vertically extending openings 5, 6 which are covered byfine mesh wire gauze 7, 8 and in the top and bottom or heads 2, 3 areformed similar openings 9, 10 which are also covered by fine mesh wireand gauze 11, 12. Said openings and the straining fabric or gauzecovering them permit of the free circulation of liquid through the body.The bottom head 3 is provided with supporting legs 13 which serve tospace the same from the bottom of the coffee or tea pot in which thedevice is placed; and the top head 2 is provided with a substantiallyV-shaped bail handle 14 to permit the percolator to be convenientlyhandled.

A hook 15 is preferably provided on one side of the body 1 so that itmay be suspended from the edge of the pot or other support to drain itscontents. The body 1 is made reversible as above mentioned and theopening 5 in it is placed nearer to one end than the opening 6 is to theother end so that when a small quantity of tea or coffee is to be madethe bottom 3 may be applied to the end of the body nearest the opening 5and when a larger quantity is to be made the body may be reversed andthe bottom 3 applied to its opposite end, as will be readily understood.

In use, the cover or top 2 is removed and the tea or ground coffee isplaced in the body 1. The cover 2 is then applied and the device placedin a tea or cofiee pot or other receptacle in which the tea or coffee isto be made. After the tea or coffee has been made the device may bedrained by suspending itfrom the edge of the pot by means of the hook 15and after its contents has drained it may be removed from the pot bymeans of the handle 14 and readily emptied and cleaned by removing itstwo heads or ends 2, 3.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

A tea or coffee percolator'com rising a body formed with openingscovered y strain ing material, one opening being arranged closer to oneend than the other opening is to the opposite end and removable andinterchangeable heads upon the ends of said body, whereby the latter maybe reversed and one of its ends used as a bottom when a small quantityof tea or coflee is to be made and its other end used when a largequantity of the same is to be made, said heads having openings coveredby straining material substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we hereunto afliX our signatures in the presence oftwo witnesses.

JOHN S. GORDON. SIMON P. MUMMA.

